General Engineers MUST get money for their work.

[Chrystoph]

Game != Life
And I didn't say money is everything. Money is important.

And anyway, all work should be paid, so upgrades too.

So, if you really want to preach this, mayhaps you should be attacking the involuntary change of contracts for no additional reward endemic in the mission system.

You get to the mission target system, suddenly get a message literally giving you the run-around, but do you get any upgrade in payout or reputation? Nope!